Hana Baba
News Reporter/Host, CrosscurrentsHana Baba is an award-winning radio journalist and host of "Crosscurrents," the daily newsmagazine on NPR member station KALW Public Radio in San Francisco. She is also co-host/co-producer of The Stoop podcast, telling stories from across the Black Diaspora.
A Sudanese American, she enjoys exploring intersectionality and the richness of diaspora and immigrant community experiences in the Bay Area and beyond. Her work also appears on NPR, PRX, BBC, CBC, and others, and she has interviewed personalities like Levar Burton, Jimmy Carter, Stacey Abrams, and more.
Her work has won awards by the National Association of Black Journalists , the San Francisco Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Religion News Association, she is a Webby honoree, and more.
When she's not on the air, Hana speaks and consults with communities on how to enter media fields to affect change in current media narratives about African, Arab and Muslim communities. For this work, she was named a Bay Area African Cultural Icon by the California Legislature.
She also teaches radio journalism, lectures at Bay Area colleges, and is a voice and narration expert.
You can hear her on museum audio tours at SFMOMA, the De Young Museum, and The Legion of Honors.
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CrosscurrentsIn Muslim countries Ramadan is the heartbeat for the whole month. Cafes and restaurants stay open late to accommodate the fasting schedule. But here in the Bay Area, it’s not like that. And if you wanted to know which spots are open late, one place you go to is the HalalFest website. -
CrosscurrentsEvery Wednesday at 4pm Jeneé will deliver intimate, rich interviews with Bay Area artists, and the outside talent who are coming through the Bay for shows and performances. -
CrosscurrentsDating apps are now the most popular way to meet a potential partner. But some people lament that the apps have made it harder to meet people in real life. There are concerns about privacy. And then there’s safety. -
CrosscurrentsDr. john a. powell explores the divisions in our society and how to bridge them in his book, “The Power of Bridging: How to build a world where we all belong.” -
CrosscurrentsLast week President Trump signed an executive order that’s meant to prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving federal benefits. Some immigration advocates say that these orders aren’t designed to save money, they are meant to cause fear. -
CrosscurrentsBlack History Month is winding down and we wanted to know: what’s the history of Black History Month? -
CrosscurrentsTomorrow marks the start of the 15-day-festival celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year. We explore the rich history of the Bay Area’s Chinese American community. -
CrosscurrentsSection 8 is a federally funded program that provides financial assistance to low-income renters. And for the first time in 14 years, Oakland’s housing authority is accepting applications. -
CrosscurrentsReporter Anna Sussman has been covering the world of incarcerated fire fighters and recently released her podcast “Fire Escape” which tells the story of one woman’s journey to rebuild her life and identity with a prison’s fire fighting team. -
Unlike visual media, which often emphasizes our differences — our appearances, our backgrounds, or our circumstances — audio cuts through all that- cutting through the surface and takes us directly to the heart of a story.
